New Castle sewer plan moves ahead but still faces opposition in Yonkers

8:49 PM,
Jan. 5, 2014

Westchester County Legislator Michael Kaplowitz.

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The town of New Castle is finalizing approvals for a new sewer system for parts of town with failing treatment plants and septic systems that has been in the works since a historic agreement to protect New York City's watershed in the late 1990s.

But the objections of officials from the city at the receiving end of the waste stream are still threatening to complicate the final approvals.

The Northern Westchester Watershed Committee recently voted to allocate $10 million to the New Castle project from the East of Hudson Water Quality Investment Program Fund, which was set up with money given to ...